It turns out that after that original story in Crain’s Detroit was published last week, some of the street cart vendors mentioned—specifically Kristyn Koth of the Pink FlaminGO and Jeff Aqualina of Concrete Cuisine—have already been contacted by members of the City Council and Planning Commissions and have been invited to an upcoming meeting regarding the matter.

Nonetheless, Crain’s Detroit published a follow-up to that story detailing some of the more recent developments as well as going further into detail to explain the current ordinances that are causing so many problems.

Current vending laws state that it is illegal, even for licensed vendors, to sell on both public and private property in the most populated areas of Detroit, including Midtown, the central business district and near the stadiums.

There are currently 61 licensed vendors in the city, and none of them can vend in those areas.

Along with the story is a video (below) I shot profiling the Pink FlaminGO’s Kristyn Koth and Jeff Aqualina and Justin Kava of Concrete Cuisine. It will definitely be interesting to see how this pans out over the next couple weeks and months and whether or not any major headway will be made on the issue before the summer is over.

Read the full story here.

Video production by Josh Sidorowicz/Crain’s Detroit Business